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Duty Cycle [1]

The percentage of time that a piece of equipment is designed to operate. For example, a pump designed to operate for 30 minutes out of every hour has a 50 percent duty cycle.

See also PEI/RP700. [2]

 
Source URL (modified on 10/15/2014): https://testing.pei.org/wiki/duty-cycle

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[1] https://testing.pei.org/wiki/duty-cycle
[2] https://testing.pei.org/node/573